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Vardha Chaturthi 2012 date

Author: -- | Last Updated: Wed 7 Sep 2011 10:17:14 AM

Vardha Chaturthi 2012 date is 30 January to 01 February. Vardha Chaturthi falls in the fourth luner day of the light half of Magha. On the day of Varada Chaturthi; lord Shiva is to be worshipped in the evening, with offerings of jasmine flowers, whence it is also called Kunda Chaturthi; but the more usual designation Varada Chaturthi implies a goddess, the giver of boons, who in some of the Puranas is identified with goddess Gauri, or more especially with Uma the bride of the Shiva.

Rituals performed during the puja

Goddess Gauri aka Parvati is on this day to be worshipped along with the diety Shiva with offerings of flowers, of incense, or of lights, with platters of sugar and ginger, or milk, or salt, with scarlet or saffron-tinted strings and golden bracelets. She is to be worshipped by both genders, but especially by women; and women themselves, not being widows, are also to be treated with peculiar homage. In the Devi Purana it is enjoined, that various kinds of grain, and condiments, and confections, and plates made of baked clay, should be given on this day by maidens to the goddess. The due observance of the rite is said to secure a flourishing progeny.

The worship of Gauri, during the celebration of Varada Chaturthi, seems to be popular in the South of India, as the Calendar specifies the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of Magha to be equally consecrated to her. In Bengal little regard is paid to this celebration, although worship is sometimes offered to Uma, on behalf of unmarried females, in reference to the means adopted by Gauri or Uma, whilst yet a maiden, to propitiate Shiva, and obtain him for her husband. This last circumstance renders it not unlikely, that the epithet Varada ought to be differently interpreted, and that it means the giver of a husband, a bridegroom being one sense of Vara, and the part which is assigned in it to unmarried girls, the presents to be made by and to them, the offerings to be made for them and the reward of the rite, a family of children, leave little doubt of the correctness of the interpretation.

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